Browsing: AI & Automation

ByLuz Pena Thursday, September 24, 2026 5:11AM Stanford University is facing criticism after using artificial intelligence to alter a photo of three students in an advertisement. /Ben Margot, File)

States are turning to lidar, machine learning, satellite imagery and other digital tools to get a better handle on landslide risks as a new round of federal grants helps geological surveys build the data infrastructure needed to map hazards and better prepare for disasters. 

A rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government website, the country’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday, admonishing the ChatGPT creator over an “obviously unacceptable” breach.

AI is getting smarter almost every month, but so are concerns about what it means for workers.

Agentic AI holds the promise of making networks smarter and staying steps ahead of impairments, all while taking stress off the people tasked with running them. But as companies begin handing over control of network operations to AI, the amount of responsibility to cede to digital teammates remains a question of trust.

In a win for pollinator conservation, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have developed a machine learning-based method to identify chemical compounds that can safely repel honey bees from pesticide-treated crops. The research offers a potential solution to one of agriculture’s most urgent ecological challenges: the ongoing decline in honey bee populations, driven in…

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, rolled out an aggressive bill Wednesday to rein in artificial intelligence, escalating the debate on Capitol Hill

For engineering assistant Mangleswaran Mahalingam, getting a stalled machine up and running used to mean leafing through hundreds of pages in a manual to find an error code and its recommended fix. If that didn’t work, he’d have to track down a colleague who’d resolved a similar snag before. It was a painstaking process, often…

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump greet Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan as they arrive at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. /Mark Schiefelbein)

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) have been multibagger investments over the past year, which isn’t surprising, given that both companies are seeing healthy growth in revenue and earnings driven by the fast-growing demand for their chips in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.